Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those...
Three times the airplane dragged the "sleeve" target, at the end of a 2,000 ft. line, across the sky. Once it was not fired upon because both ship and target were too close to the sun. Once only two guns of the battery had firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted...
...Humanism's" tenets, described as new, inspiring, scientific, proved to be tangential, vague. "Humanists unanimously agree in rejecting the supernatural. This is the great dividing line between them and all other religions of today. . . . So fundamental is the distinction between supernatural religion and Humanism, that there are those who deny that Humanism is a religion at all. . . . Humanists do not so much desire a new idea of God, as they desire a new idea of man. If Humanists were to make a creed, the first article would be: 'I believe in Man.' . . . Humanists are not only opposed...
...Cape Horn, his supply and base ship William Scorseby sailed from Simonstown, South Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert are Parker Cramer, who this summer made a second unsuccessful try to fly from Illinois to Europe by way of the Arctic Ocean (TIME, July 15). Also along as a flyer is S. Alward Cheesman, Canadian pilot. They will attempt...
...runners had little difficulty in downing the New Hampshire freshmen 22 to 33 in the preliminary. R. R. Wesley '33 and A. Foote '33 crossed the line in first and second position...